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  2. Peak oil - Wikipedia

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    Peak oil is the point when global oil production reaches its maximum rate, ... "From politics to prophecy: environmental quiescence and the peak-oil movement" (PDF ...

  3. Predicting the timing of peak oil - Wikipedia

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    A logistic distribution shaped world oil production curve, peaking at 12.5 billion barrels per year about the year 2000, as originally proposed by M. King Hubbert in 1956. In 1956, M. King Hubbert created and first used the models behind peak oil to predict that United States oil production would peak between 1965 and 1971.

  4. Hubbert peak theory - Wikipedia

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    "Hubbert's peak" can refer to the peaking of production in a particular area, which has now been observed for many fields and regions. Hubbert's peak was thought to have been achieved in the United States contiguous 48 states (that is, excluding Alaska and Hawaii) in the early 1970s. Oil production peaked at 10.2 million barrels (1.62 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) per day in 1970 and then dec

  5. How soon will it be until the world reaches 'peak oil'? - AOL

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    Oil giant BP released a report Monday predicting that the world sharply reduce its reliance on the company's signature product, oil and gas, over the next 25 years as countries hastened their ...

  6. The Shocking Implications of the Rebuke of Peak Oil Theory - AOL

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    Peak oil theory has gained widespread recognition at various points over the past several decades, usually during times when fears about oil supply shortages have been at their highest. The theory ...

  7. Uncharted Territory: A Modern Peak Oil Theory - AOL

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    Marion King Hubbert accurately predicted a peak in U.S. oil production in 1956, in the first widely published peak oil theory. Since then, people have been predicting when demand would exceed supply.

  8. Colin Campbell (geologist) - Wikipedia

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    Colin J. Campbell (24 July 1931 – 13 November 2022) was a British petroleum geologist who predicted that oil production would peak by 2007. He claimed the consequences of this are uncertain but drastic, due to the world's dependency on fossil fuels for the vast majority of its energy.

  9. Peak Oil? These Insiders Aren't Too Concerned - AOL

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    Peak oil, or the point in time when petroleum extraction has reached its maximum and production declines, has drawn a lot of attention from speculators. The impacts of oil supply not meeting ...